“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
― Lady Gaga

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”
― Bono, On the Move

“Music is my higher power”
― Oliver James

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites